Making Music & Visuals with artificial life systems? This year's @ALifeConf will host a Music/Visuals making hackathon. A space to explore how ALife systems can inspire visuals and music creation 🎶 More info: @claire__aoi

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Some thoughts and practical tips on how to develop better coding practices in academia in this paper—relevant well beyond bioinformatics. It even comes with a climbing analogy 🧗 Paper:

RT @jalorenz: I have an interesting Postdoc position to offer: I am looking for an interdisciplinary minded researcher to work together on…

@MichaeTa Come for the science, stay for the pretty patterns

@khoribe3 It seems we managed to not collide into each other for three days 🥲

Three fun days discussing collective intelligence at @CBehav. We had the chance of presenting our work on how to control collective systems by bringing them close to criticality—from flocking birds to humans in social networks w/@SaraLNeven Looking forward to next @ants_conf 🐜

First day of @ants_conf in beautiful autumny Konstanz 🍂 Brilliant first keynote by @icouzin on the geometry of collective decision making—connecting neural dynamics to collective behaviour in humans.

@KordingLab Interpretability and control. What does it mean to understand a large neural system when you have access to the activity of all the neurons, all the time.

Evolution, aesthetics, and sailing under the fierce Valencia sun ☀️ Thank you to @EricMedvetTs, @evoHidalgo and rest of organisers & attendees for the brilliant week at @SPECIESsociety

@kenneth0stanley It's about how they fail. The fact that they sometimes reason correctly but can easily output meaningless statements, suggests the adjacent state space is not semantically meaningful—which perceptually translates to us as lack of reasoning.

The amazing performances that participants built during the ALife-Art Hackathon #ALife2024. Looking forward to organising it again next year in Kyoto!

RT @miltonllera: Are LLMs Alife? @nisioti_eleni @claire__aoi @EIiasNajarro @lae_teo @andrewdai99 #ALIFE2024

For some of these life-like properties—e.g. self-replication—we make a distinction between system-level self-replication: replication of computational substrate + pattern: e.g. biological viruses, and pattern-level self-replication: e.g. Conway's Game of Life's Replicator pattern

@miguelgondu Sunsetting Immanuel

We will have @jdkarmitage from @_iil_is presenting Tölvera—a Python library designed for composing together and interacting with artificial life and self-organising systems. Check out what Tölvera can do &